"For early-onset dementia, there was a significant gender split.
"While the overall majority of dementia patients were women, almost two-thirds of all early-onset dementia patients (64.9%) were men."
Total bs
What? I don’t understand this thread. What’s going on? Where’s my JD bottle?
It goes on to say that of the 2/3 who are men that get it, 80% or Faking It so as to not have to have conversations with their wives and mothers-in-law.
My father has not touched a drop of alcohol in 40 years. Never was a big drinker in his youth, just beer, but even gave that up for his religious beliefs. He is 70. He’s had dementia since he was 60, progressively getting worse.
Yeah, whatever. Father died of dementia/Alzheimer’s and did not drink alcohol. Go figure.
And another new study credits alcohol for long healthy life!
There’s way more risk to your liver.
Neither of my grandparents were alcoholics.
Bigger chance to live to over 90 , with dementia?
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/drinking-alcohol-key-living-90-article-1.3829634
Temporary dementia for sure... Many people wake up without any knowledge of their actions during the previous night.
As for the long term... My grandmother drank her entire life and finally at the ripe age of 95 she began to suffer dementia... Was it the booze? If you’re lucky enough to make it to 95 who cares?
The most common cause of dementia has nothing to do with your diet or drinking habits, it has a lot more to do with living too long. People are not supposed to make it to 95 and a large percentage of those who do will obviously suffer from the effects of dementia like my grandmother did... And she lived until he was 99.
4 bad years, 95 good ones and no complaints. She enjoyed every Cesar that she ever drank.
Association doesn’t establish causation. The amount of alcohol consumed in France is among the highest in Europe, so that will contribute to the likelihood of finding associations with alcohol consumption. Still, the data deserve consideration, and I wouldn’t dismiss it without looking at the statistical methods they used and what controls they used.
And just yesterday I read upon these very walls that alcohol, not exercise, is the secret to living past 90.
Moderate amounts of alcohol is beneficial to health. Large amounts of alcohol are deleterious to health. It is true.
These are the same kind of people who claim that even one drink drastically affects your judgement and perceptions.
Carrie Nation is alive and well and strutting her stuff as a MADD cow!
I live in a senior community. I know several people with dimentis. We go to dinner with them, none of them drink. The study is bs. Would be interesting to follow the grant money on this “study”, bet it would be more revealing than the results if the study.
Mom died last year, with dementia, never had a drink in her life ....
Duh, just look at Hillary
I see early onset dementia in alcoholics. Starts in their fifties. Used to be called Wet-Brain.
Years of damaging brain with large and consistent amounts of alcohol leads to significant brain damage.